Sergeant_Crunch

From our fine friends at GW

:vb_devil:Screw the door. I wanna wear that and hide behind bushes.

Could be, they've been on a trend of other than human pirates lately.

I dunno, the face on Rod Blackreef doesn't look right to me. Maybe it'll look better in metal.

I've been kinda half-assed following this one. No miniature line attached to them, primarily they've used an assortment of 28mm sci-fi minis in the battle reports posted to TMP. If they post a trial version of it, I may check it out and post my thoughts as I'm always looking for new ways to use my 40k minis instead of being a dust collection array. Damn, my right hand is my trigger hand too.

Wizards of the Coast published some errata today for the D&D Miniatures game.

Halloween Sophie in Catgirl Costume by Bob Ridolfi Boris Mingla Mercenary Warlord by Bobby Jackson Pirate Crewman Mercenary, 1 of 2 by Bobby Jackson Rod Blackreef Mercenary Sergeant by Bobby Jackson Damar Hawkwinter (Dark Heaven Legends) by Gene Van Horne Deva, Angel (Dark Heaven Legends) by Jeff Grace Now if they'd just hurry up and publish CAV2 already.

Um, the title kinda says it all.

KR has added some new trays geared toward 6mm and 15mm figures as well as speeding up the load time of their page.

New guys on the block with Vietnam and Modern era military minis

Heavy Gear Blitz is now available for order from both the DP9 web store (DP9-996, $21.95 USD) and DriveThruRPG ($15.95 USD, electronic download - if you prefer the e-book). The Paxton General Purpose Squad (DP9-9020, $39.95 USD) is also available from the web store, and the Northern and Southern General Purpose Squads are available for pre-order ($39.95 USD each, shipping Aug 31). All Heavy Gear miniatures are 1/144 scale. Future releases will be the Strike Squads in September and the Fire Support Squads in October. Further releases, including Field Guides (army lists) that expand upon the ones presented in the main Blitz rulebook, are scheduled for November and beyond. We would also like to point retailers and those who would prefer to order from their local stores to our Retailer Order Page, where you can get DP9 product directly from us (if you wish).

What I look for in rules are simple complexity. (Right up there with compassionate conservatism, eh?) What I mean is the much touted "easy to learn, difficult to master." I also like good balance, even from later supplements. I hate it when I get a force all ready and then a supplement comes out and the only chance I have is to completely cheese it out. I want good balance because it makes the game against the other player (with the luck of the die) rather than against the rules or force lists. The minis are important too, otherwise I'd be playing games with counters rather than minis (though there are some excellent games that use counters). I'm really starting to like rules without dedicated miniature lines too as I can pick and choose the best ones (depending on what my definition of "best" is at the time). Finally, I want a fun game. Of course everyone's definition of what "fun" is will be different. It's like asking everyone to describe why their favorite color is their favorite color. For me, a fun game is one where the rules run smoothly without having to reference 20 bagillion charts and diagrams and can scale from a small game for a quick fix or a large game with nary a square inch of table uncovered for epic battles.

Title kinda says it all. Here's the press release

Pics of the packaging

Foundry has released a new Horde and a new 2000AD Collection. The new 2000AD Collection is a series of Judge Dredd villains and consists of: Judge Fire Judge Mortis Johnny Cuba Max Normal Citi Def Trooper Mean Machine Angel 2 Pa Angel Link Angel The entire collection is available for $84 US and is also available with free shipping. The new Horde is Zanzibari Slavers Horde which consists of 60 Zanzibari Slavers and Ruga-Ruga bandits and mercenaries. The Horde is available for $125 US and also comes with free shipping. (I'd put the pic here, but it's broke up into segments and won't post right)

I play CAV by Reaper. Now if they'd just get off their duffs and release the freaking new rules. I've always been a sucker for big stompy robots. CAV plays smooth and scales from small games to big games pretty well, unlike the daddy of stompy robot games, Battletech. That and I prefer the CAV robots to the BTech ones. I've got the rules for Warlord, but need to paint the minis I do have and get some more for them to fight against. I've been eyeballing some of Majestic Twelve's games lately as well, primarily Starmada, For the Masses, and Defiance. MJ12 has solid rules that allow you to use any miniatures you have and create your own stats for units while retaining game balance. Though convincing the wife to let me get them might be difficult. I really need to start a gaming club or something. Used to play 40k but got fed up with several aspects of GW and their game.

Poked around their site a little bit, but didn't see anything about new Brood minis.

I'll check tonight, it'll be a while though. Have to take kids to a Cub Scouts meeting.

Maybe I should've named this thread "Design on a Dime, no really, base them on a dime"

Iriso Seimetsu Co., Ltd. has created the world's smallest six-sided dice using brass and a 9-hour-long manufacturing process. They measure 0.3mm by 0.3mm by 0.3mm. The long dark object next to the die in the picture below is the lead from a 0.5mm mechanical pencil. Each die weighs 0.00016 grams and the pips measure 0.05mm in diameter. The dice ship with a special case and the 100,275 yen ($870) price includes shipping. Unfortunately, you'll need a microscope to be able to read the darned things...

Now available from Dark Age Forsaken Ravage Warband (6 minis) Forsaken Ravage Leader Skarrd Bone Doc #2

These are available on preorder from their Tombstone line.

Or 28mm stuff for your dungeon... Stoneware flagons Plates and Tankards Candles

Here's what Reaper release for general consumption yesterday to their online store. Some of these have alreay been posted as greens.

Very nice speedpaints. Not a fan of the Warmachine stuff but I find myself wondering how they would look with a metallic blue paintjob.